Cream with Your Coffin: A Lucy Beam Mystery

2011: Quarter-Finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award!                         

American event planner and mother of twins, Lucy Beam, is determined that, by fair means or foul, she’s going to carve out a new life in bucolic Saskatoon, Canada. But juggling social climbing with the parenting of twins—on top of being a Yank oddity—in this, oh-so-Canadian university town is a lot to handle and outspoken Lucy Beam’s fresh start is doomed from the get-go. What she doesn’t know is that her social conniving and apple-polishing with the folksy Member of Parliament makes her stick out like a six o’clock teat on an unmilked cow and she soon falls prey to the slander of her secret-hoarding neighbor.

Lucy’s plans for the perfect life crumble when she discovers the pickled remains of the neighbour and her only friend in the whole town is accused of the crime. A philandering South American vet is Lucy’s chief suspect but she’s soon turned off lattes for life after she finds him upside down in a vat of creamy milk in the university’s dairy barn.

In this Lucille Ball meets Agatha Raisin cozy Lucy Beam must trip up a Peeping Tom, snare the double killer, and rescue her twins before she can make a place for herself and her family in this town—a place where the veneer of manners is just beginning to crack under the strain of holding down forty years of secrets. Lucy Beam is about to blow the lid off the hidden truths and rock this sleepy town.

To read the opening excerpt of this first Lucy Beam Mystery click here.

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